1.   He held meetings - the first of their kind - with government leaders in each of the four countries.

2.   The Minnesota government change leaders avoided this mistake.

3.   A series of prominent former government leaders and various other Western political figures visited Iraq during November to seek from Saddam Hussein the release of those held hostage there.

4.   The death sentences attracted widespread international criticism, and several government leaders made appeals for clemency.

5.   He held meetings -- the first of their kind -- with government leaders in each of the four countries.

6.   But, in the final resort, EC government leaders can make the rules up as they go along.

7.   Panama and Costa Rica had yet to ratify the SICA protocol, but their government leaders expressed their determination to participate.

8.   Amorosi said that the members will be meeting with government leaders and drug enforcement agencies throughout the region as well as conducting a number of field activities.

9.   An able, solid government leader, Chernomyrdin serves at the pleasure of the president, and Yeltsin sheds leading advisers with crushing regularity.